TELEGRAM TO M. S. KEDROV

Written:Written on August 12, 1918Published:First published in 1926 in the journalBolshevistskaya MyslNo. 11 (13).

      Sent from Moscow to Vologda.

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Kedrov,Gubernia Executive Committee, Vologda

Theharmfulness of your departure has been shown by
the absence of any leader when the British began their
advance up the Dvina.

Nowyou must intensively make up for lost ground,
contact Kotlas, send aviators there immediately and organise
the defence of Kotlas at all
costs.[1]

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]M.S.Kedrov’s departure for Moscow coincided with the start
of the offensive by the Entente interventionist troops in the
direction of Vologda and Kotlas.

Leninproposed that the defence of Kotlas should be organised
at all costs, because there were large stocks of explosives there,
and accordingly sent a demolition group to prepare their blast
off at the critical moment. Lenin ordered the commander of the
Moscow district, N. I. Muralov, to find the heavy artillery battery
sent from Moscow to the Urals and place it at the disposal of
M. S. Kedrov.

TheRed Army held Kotlas—and its war stocks—and this was
of great importance for the outcome of the civil war in the North.